Finished my run through on Hardcore (or whatever is before insanity).

Vanguard Shepherd.
Full loyalty of all crew members.
Full SR2 upgrades
All of the weapon upgrades.

1) Miranda lead fire team one.
2) Tali through vent

3) Grunt to escort survivors back to SR2.
4) Garrus Fire Team two.
5) Jack for biotic.

6) Did not choose anybody to stay behind at the door.

I ended up losing Moridin, which sucks, because I liked Moridin.
Everybody else survived.

I finished on hardest initial difficulty.
Infiltrator Shepherd
shield, armour & gun Normandy upgrades
random other team upgrades
all team members loyal
headed to suicide mission as soon as crew were abducted

1) Garrus lead fire team 1
2) Tali in vents (and opened gates in time for her)
3) Grunt did survivor escort (incl Kelly)
4) Garrus lead fire team 2
5) Samara as my biotic shield
6) Told the rest of the team to hang back and cover us

outcome: all survived.

How high do you need your Paragon/Renegade to stop losing loyalty during team arguments between Jack/Miranda and Tali/Legion? My first play through was a soldier which I'd had enough of so I created a new adept character instead of playing again on the first and I've been pretty even keel with my paragon/renegade responses which has me worried about not having enough in one to maintain loyalty.

It kinda pisses me off that you get penalised for playing a rough and ready hero type character in just about every Bioware game. I thought that by now they would realise that their system goes against the hero type most of us grew up with like John McClain or Indiana Jones/Han Solo.

... but John McClane, Indiana Jones & Han Solo all got penalised in their movies for acting thus...

yeah deadlyf you're going to be screwed since you went half/half. It is kind of dumb.

Any: How did you save kelly? She kind of just melted in the case when i found her lol. We even had dinner together!

just gotta go rescue the crew as soon as you can. If you do any form of mission in between them being captured & you going through the Omega mass relay then she's gonna get ugly.

poor kelly.

has anyone played with their ME1 character where the krogran doesn't die? if you go to the krogan homeworld is he there?

has anyone played with their ME1 character where the krogran doesn't die? if you go to the krogan homeworld is he there?

Wrex is there, yep.